Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-12-21
SOTTH CAROLINA NEWS.

The municipal election in Charleston,
or Tuesday of last week, passed Oft quiet,
ly. The Independent vote was light and
the whole Democratic ticket was elected
by a heavy majority.
An industrial school and home for
colored girls will O be built in Camden
by the Women's Home Mission Society
of the North. The location is south of the
negro free school building.
The Charleston Sun learns that Mr..
Josephus Woodruff proposes soon to return
to Charleston and become a permanent
citizen of that city. The Sun says he will
probably engage in the auction business.
Mr.. Hodge Burnett, a young farmer
in Edgefeld county, was found in the
woods on Sunday of last week, a mile from
home, with his throat cut, but still living.
His wife died on Thursday morning. Mr..
Burnett left the house Immediately after
her death, and was not found till Sunday.
It is hoped that he may recover. The
death of his wife caused him to attempt
his life.
- Caleb Sauls, an old and respected citi-
zen of W%aIterboro, met with a sad death
on Monday of last week. While hammer
ing down in an old we'll, which he was re-
pairing, the earth caved in upon him,
burying him about ten feet and causing
instant death. Immediately as the alarm
wa given, the work of digging him out
was commenced, but when the unfortunate
man was reached he had breathed his last.
- Speaking Of the Cumberland Gap
railroad project, the Edgefeld Chronicle
says: Capt. Kirk is surveying and relo-
eating the route from Aiken to a point
some ten miles this side. When we say
ten miles, we mean that some six or eight
miles of the present grading, bearing out
toward ShaW's creek, is to be abandoned
by the New York construction company.
This will shorten the distance between
Aiken and Edgefeld, and a the com
pany, it is said, some $28, 600. Capt. Kirk
is actually at this work.
The S~partanburg correspondent OF the
NeUs and Courier writes under date OF the
18th: About thirty-tive persons LETT this
afternoon on the Air Line train for Texas.
Five families and several single young
men have gone. These are some of our
best and most industrious farmers. They
came to the conclusion that they could
provide better for their children in the
West than here. They will land in a
county ere.improved lands are selling
at s35 to $50 an acre. On the other hand, a
young man has recently returned to this
county, after trying Texas even or eight
years, and he thinks this county will beat
Texas on an average. Thus it goes, and
thus it will go on till the end of time.
Men are not going to be satisfied with their
present place or occupation. They are
subject to the great and memorable law OF
change as the ocean is.
- Pearlstine & Karesh, merchants of
Branchville, have assigned, with assets Of
about 81, 900 or 81 500 and liabilities o about
$40, 900. The correspondent of the Colum-
bia ReqiSter say: "This is the most stupen-
dous failure our county has ever had, and
the creditors have had representatives
watching every movement. They are
making an attempt to set aside the assign
ment for "crookedness." A day or two ago
one of the attorneys for the creditors OBJ
served a negro coming out Of Karesh's
dwelling house with a box of tobacco on
his shoulder marked "P. 6 X" Pursuit
was made and the tobacco captured, which
will be exhibited in court. 1t seems that
a large lot of tobacco was delivered to the
firm on the morning the assignment was
made" The majority of the firms debts
were contracted since last October, when
their entire business was burned up, and
grave doubts are entertained about the
fairness of the failure.